Something To Shout About

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Something to Shout About

Comedy: Sitcoms

1960s advertising agency sitcom starring Michael Medwin and Fenella Fielding,

1960s advertising agency sitcom starring Michael Medwin, Joan Sims and Fenella Fielding,

Something to Shout About: Series 2: Episode 18

Episode 18

Series 2

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Something to Shout About, Series 2, Episode 18

Lines get very crossed thanks to the advertising agency’s switchboard.

Lines get very crossed thanks to the advertising agency’s switchboard. Stars Fenella Fielding and Joan Sims. From May 1961.

Lines get well and truly crossed thanks to the advertising agency’s switchboard. 

'A light-hearted exposé of the advertising world!'

Set in a London ad agency called 'Apsley, Addis, Cohen, Barbican, Blythe, Giddy & Partners'.

Written by Myles Rudge with Ronnie Wolfe.

Michael …. Michael Medwin
Janet …. Fenella Fielding
Mavis …. Joan Sims
Maggie …. Eleanor Summerfield
Adrian …. Nicholas Phipps. 

Other parts played by Warren Mitchell.

Producer: Eric Miller

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1961.

Something to Shout About: Series 2

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1960s comedy highlighting the quirks of the advertising world.

1960s comedy starring Michael Medwin and Fenella Fielding that highlights the quirks of the advertising world

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